Ol Roy

It was hearty, all right. Not so much loaf.

Last Thanksgiving, we invited a whole house full of people over – Mia, Ref, Sunshine, their kids, and even Mia’s dog came. One of LA’s teenage friends came as well. It was a full house. I’d been roasting the turkey for hours, a special brined recipe that leaves the turkey so moist and yummy. All [...]

Dream

They were like giant potholders. Hell, I could use a nap right now.

Last night, I had a dream that went a little like this: I was in a training class on some social media measurement software. Sitting next to me was Eric T. Peterson. It was like that awkward scene from Twilight, where Bella sits next to Edward in science class for the first time and he [...]

M11

I’m sitting in the Louisville airport, getting ready to head back home after spending the last few days at a Nazarene conference (M11). It’s been quite an adventure for me and I wanted to take a serious moment to sit and reflect upon it. [NOTE: New blog readers, please be advised that this post will [...]

WAA Excellence Awards: Rising Star

Well, I meant to put this post up yesterday, but three posts in one day was a little much for me. By the end of the second one yesterday, I felt like I’d gone from “…and the flames can occasionally break their boundaries and scorch the unprotected field…” to “Fire Bad.” So I opted to [...]

WAA Excellence Awards: Client/Practitioner of the Year

I really liked this category – lots of great material here to inspire me. The folks that have the thrill of working with me are about to hear me cover lots of great examples of how best to use digital analytics. They just don’t know it yet… mostly because they don’t read my blog. So [...]

WAA Excellence Awards: INNOVATOR / Technology of the Year

I’m really having fun with all the feedback I’ve been getting on these posts. Maybe I should lurk less and post more. A few of you have asked me privately if you’ll see me at eMetrics. The reality is: I don’t know yet. We’re still finalizing our budgets for the year at work, so I [...]

WAA Excellence Awards: Most Influential Contributor

I know yesterday I said I’d be talking about the Client/Practitioner of the Year, but I think it’s more important to talk about Most Influential Contributor right now. You’ll see why in just a moment. Yesterday I ragged on Eric Peterson, mostly because I like to give him crap – but partly because I did [...]

WAA Excellence Awards: Most Influencial Agency/Group

I don’t usually blog about “professional” things unless it’s to poke fun at myself. Or unless I’m really fired up about something. This particular entry falls into the latter category. You see, once again Eric T. Peterson has annoyed me into blogging my position on certain web analytics topics. In and of itself, that’s not [...]

Passed

I'm so qualified, it's disturbing

About a week ago, I challenged the folks that report to me to do the Google Analytics IQ test online. We’re supposed to be the digital experts at our company, and it seemed like a good idea to make sure we really understood everything we could about GA, which is one of the big web [...]

Saturday Marketing Chat

While I have gotten some weird direct mail this week – in particular, a catalog named Wireless that seems to target eclectic sarcastic people (excellent targeting, by the way) – today’s topic will be on heuristic reviews. A heuristic review is basically what I did when I gave you my thoughts on the Cornell Ornithology [...]

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